
The Newcastle lord mayor's chief of staff, Matt Murray, has formally charged a local Labor branch secretary with "disloyalty and unworthy conduct" as long-running feuds bubble to the surface in the lead-up to this year's council elections.
Mr Murray wrote to Labor's state general secretary, Dominic Offner, in October accusing Georgetown-Waratah branch secretary Justin Davis of "illegally" calling a fresh election of delegates to the party's Newcastle local government committee.